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Looking back . . . Looking beyond

Last semester was a banner term! Concerns about COVID didn't seem to dominate the year as they have in the past couple of years. Student...

Nature's Poem

Last night, I got home to find a weird bug in the driveway. The bug looked like a stinging cricket--a black body with red stripes with a...

Aarrgh! Writer's Block!

“The hardest thing about writing is writing.” — Nora Ephron Those moments when writing doesn't come easy are more frequent when...

Vision Boards

During a writing conference I attended this week, several of the speakers talked about vision boards on their blogs. As I was watching, I...

How to Procrastinate Writing

Many articles about how to get the writing done focus on the things like time management, establishing a writing space, and prioritizing...

Train Your Brain

15 minutes a day. That's all it takes to train your brain to do a task. Paul J. Silvia, a doctor who studies the psychology of creativity...

Unfinished

I love a good story. A good story is like a grand adventure. I get lost in the plot, traveling with the characters, getting caught up in...

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